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Black is not a simple colour to obtain in period, especially early period - few things make true black dyes, and many black dyes are either not colourfast (fade quickly) or corrosive (eat through the fabric).

I am told, that in period the colour formed by mixing red and blue (eg overdyingmadder with woad) was considered to be brown, where in modern times we have a range of names for various shades: wine, maroon, etc.